Definitions for bunch
bʌntʃbunch

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bunch, clump, cluster, clustering(noun)

   a grouping of a number of similar things

   "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"

2. crowd, crew, gang, bunch(noun)

   an informal body of friends

   "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

3. bunch, lot, caboodle(verb)

   any collection in its entirety

   "she bought the whole caboodle"

4. bunch together, bunch, bunch up(verb)

   form into a bunch

   "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"

5. bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump(verb)

   gather or cause to gather into a cluster

   "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bunch(Noun)

   A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump. Usually fastened together.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

2. bunch(Noun)

   An informal body of friends.

   He still hangs out with the same bunch.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

3. bunch(Noun)

   A considerable amount.

   a bunch of trouble

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

4. bunch(Noun)

   An unmentioned amount; a number.

   A bunch of them went down to the field.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

5. bunch(Noun)

   A group of logs tied together for skidding.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

6. bunch(Noun)

   An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

7. bunch(Noun)

   The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

8. bunch(Noun)

   (tobacco) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

   Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

9. bunch(Verb)

   To gather into a bunch.

   Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

10. bunch(Verb)

    To gather fabric into folds.

    Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

11. bunch(Verb)

    To form a bunch.

    Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

12. bunch(Verb)

    To be gathered together in folds

    Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

13. bunch(Verb)

    To protrude or swell

    Etymology: From bunche 'hump, swelling', variant of *bunge (confer English dialect bung 'heap, grape bunch'), from bunkōn (confer West Frisian bonke 'bone, lump, bump', German Bunge 'tuber', Danish bunke 'heap, pile'), from bʰenǵʰ- (confer Hittite panku 'total, entire', Tocharian B pkante 'volume, fatness', Lithuanian búožė 'knob', Ancient Greek παχύς 'thick', Sanskrit बहु 'thick; much').

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bunch(noun)

   a protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump

2. Bunch(noun)

   a collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys

3. Bunch(noun)

   a small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein

4. Bunch(verb)

   to swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round

5. Bunch(verb)

   to form into a bunch or bunches

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. BUNCH

   The group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s became known as the BUNCH: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together. During the 1960s, IBM and these five computer manufacturers, along with RCA and General Electric, had been known as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs." The description of IBM's competitors changed after GE's 1970 sale of its computer business to Honeywell and RCA's 1971 sale of its computer business to Sperry, leaving only five "dwarfs". Fortunately, their initials lent themselves to a new acronym, BUNCH.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bunch

   bunsh, n. a number of things tied together or growing together: a definite quantity fastened together, as of linen yarn (180,000 yards), &c.: a cluster: something in the form of a tuft or knot.—v.i. to swell out in a bunch.—v.t. to make a bunch of, to concentrate.—adjs. Bunch′-backed (Shak.), having a bunch on the back, crook-backed; Bunched, humped, protuberant.—ns. Bunch′-grass, a name applied to several West American grasses, growing in clumps; Bunch′iness, the quality of being bunchy: state of growing in bunches.—adj. Bunch′y, growing in bunches or like a bunch, bulging.—Bunch of fives, the fist with the five fingers clenched. [Ety. obscure.]

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bunch' in Nouns Frequency: #2439

How to pronounce bunch?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bunch in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bunch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of bunch in a Sentence

1. Lou Diamond Phillips:

   [ I ] finished all three seasons like that, thank goodness Killing Eveis back, thank goodness you know, Better Call Saul, theres a bunch.

2. Anthony Bourdain:

   I was sharing a house in Provincetown one summer with a bunch of friends from high school. I was not contributing to the rent, and everybody I was living with was working in seasonal jobs at restaurants either as cooks or floor staff, one night they just said, we need a dishwasher and it’s going to be you, since you are not contributing to the rent. SoI got started as a dishwasher and fell in love with the whole business and the whole subculture.

3. The Arizona rancher:

   It's kind of like the Brady Bunch on steroids.

4. Mary Cuthbert:

   A bunch of us Washingtonians went, late in the morning, I am walking across the strip. I see Marion Barry. And I'm like, 'Hey Marion Barry! Hey, D.C. Mayor! Marion Barry!' He says, 'Hey! Don't nobody up here know I'm mayor! You're blowing my cover!

5. Zach Gilford:

   I just think it’s such an amazing organization, it got caught in the crosshairs of politicians … I don’t know why a bunch of men should tell women how to do their healthcare and try to defund it.

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